Takano Family History
- Takano Name Meaning
- Japanese: from a common place name meaning ‘high field’. The surname is found mostly in eastern Japan and is listed in the Shinsen shojiroku. Alternate readings found in western Japan are Kono and Koya, the latter being taken from the name of the famed mountain in Kii (now Wakayama prefecture), where the monk Kukai (774–835) built a monastery, the Buddhist teachings of which had a profound effect on Japanese civilization.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 7,363 Historical Documents with Takano on Ancestry
- 1,686 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 820 Census and Voter Lists
- 369 Military Records
- 4,324 Immigration Records
- 164 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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